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Worst book ever by Mario Vargas Llosa, I'm near the very end now, and it's terrible. 600 pages of crap. I know Llosa employs a number of confusing and sophisticated literary mechanisms, but I really had no idea what was going on in this. I'm 550 out of 600 pages through, and couldn't tell you who any of the characters were, what they were doing, why, or the plot overall. The writing isn't even good. I can't even enjoy it chapter by chapter, just based on quality prose and good character moments. Fuck this book.

The thing is, Llosa has written some excellent books, and some shit ones (like this), I don't understand why his quality varies so much.

>> No.1923718

THE FUCKING TOPIC TITLE IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE BOOK, WTF, THIS IS HOW UPSET I AM.

>> No.1923763

I guess no litfags have read it, which is probably a good thing.

>> No.1923783

>>1923718
You really need to stop with the all caps rage.
Every time I see one of your comments I skip it immediately.

>> No.1924041

>>1923783

>implying I've ever done this before in the last year I've been posting here

>> No.1924042

>>1924041
>sunhawk
>been here a year
imanoldfagbeenhereallsummer.jpg

>> No.1924076

>>1924042

3 months =/= 12 months.

2 years of /lit/ existing =/= 6 or 7 years of /b/ existing

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1924101

>>1923715

>> No.1924114

Maybe you couldn't relate to peruvian society and it's tragicomic way of living on reminiscences.

I don't like MVLL's style either. So, meh.